"...we should pass over all biographies of 'the good and the great,' while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows."
~Edgar Allan Poe

Friday, August 28, 2026

Weekend Link Dump

 


Welcome to this week's Link Dump!

Just watch out for Strange Company HQ's resident flirt.



How the California Gold Rush birthed the modern world.

The sound of King Tut's trumpets.

I suppose the moral here is, if you're going to commit murder, make sure that the victim is someone nobody will mourn.

"Enigmatic tablets" from the Bronze Age.

How a kitten joined an Ohio construction crew.

19th century Yankee adventurers in the Pacific.

The shame of beardlessness.

Cyborg cockroaches.  With syringes!

Those wicked Amazonian dolphins.

The complexities of ancient cave art.

The women of the Crusades.

The execution of an alchemist.

D-Day in contemporary newspapers.

The latest in the search for Noah's Ark.

The Vegetable Marrow Riots.

One man's obsession with a jar of spicy mustard.

The queen who used King Arthur as a marketing tool.

The disappearances of two elderly women.

Letters from medieval students who could use a little cash.

The "desire paths" of the East End.

Pro tip: Never take a cookie from a scientist.

Medieval animals on trial.

The haunted Cariboo Trail.

A 1900 visit to London's dog cemetery.

An ancient cave sanctuary and "the Lady."

18th century Jesuits meet Chilean UFOs.

That's all for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at a very bad romantic breakup.  "Bad" as in "lawsuits, voodoo curses, and shootings."  In the meantime, speaking of breakups...


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